Colonial re‐characterization and the discourse surrounding the Eyre controversy

Abstract

This essay provides a case study of the legal and public discourse surrounding the Governor Eyre controversy. Using newspaper articles, Parliamentary addresses, diary entries, and historical commentaries, the essay illustrates the ways that the symbolic figures involved in the “Morant Bay Rebellion” of 1865 were used by radicals, conservatives, and liberals in their re‐characterizations of both the colonizer and the colonized during the post‐emancipation period. The author argues that the debates over the imposition of martial law by Governor Eyre helped influence the imperialist rhetorics that were used to marginalize colonial subjects throughout the British Empire.

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